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The Autobiogaphy of Miss Jane Pittman
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman259 pages© 1982 Ernest Gaines A young girl carries water for both exhausted rebels and the jubilant army chasing them. An elderly lady who has seen sorrow after sorrow visited on herself and her loved … Continue reading
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Tagged Ernest Gaines, race, Southern Literature, women
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The Old Man and the Boy
The Old Man and the Boy© 1957 Robert Ruark303 pages Of the various titles on my Classics Club Strikes back list, The Old Man and the Boy is something of an outlier; I’d venture to say that most people haven’t … Continue reading
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Tagged Classics Club Strikes Back, Nature, Of Boys and Men, outdoors, Southern Literature
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Where the Crawdads Sing
Where the Crawdads Sing © 2018 Delia Owens 368 pages ‘There are some who can live without wild things, and some who cannot.’” – Aldous Leopold, The Sand County Almanac They called her the Marsh Girl. Abandoned in a decaying … Continue reading
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Tagged Book Bunch Favorites, Nature, recommended to me, Southern Literature, thriller
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A Lesson Before Dying
A Lesson Before Dying © 1993 Ernest Gaines 256 pages “And that’s all we are Jefferson, all of us on this earth, a piece of drifting wood. until we – each of us, individually- decide to become something else. I … Continue reading
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Tagged American Literature, American South, Ernest Gaines, Southern Literature
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Mockingbird Songs
Mockingbird Songs: My Friendship with Harper Lee© 2017 Wayne Flynt251 pages When I read Poor but Proud by Wayne Flynt some years ago, I never imagined I’d meet the author, let alone help him carry in boxes of books for … Continue reading
The Memory of Old Jack
The Memory of Old Jack© 1974 Wendell Berry223 pages “Now Old Jack, who was the last of that generation that Wheeler looked to with such fililial devotion, is dead. And Wheeler is fifty-two years old, as old as the century, … Continue reading
Posted in historical fiction, Reviews
Tagged historical fiction, Port William, Southern Literature, Wendell Berry
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Visiting Harper Lee
On Saturday I visited the boyhood home of Hank Williams in Georgiana, and then decided — since I was in the neighborhood — to drive a bit further into the woods and go to Monroeville, the hometown of Harper Lee. … Continue reading
The Unvanquished
The Unvanquished© 1938 William Faulkner254 pages Years ago in a ninth-grade literature class, I chose to read a book by William Faulkner for a class project on the basis that he was a southern writer. My teacher cautioned me against … Continue reading
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings© 1969 Maya Angelou304 pages I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is an autobiography in the form of a novel, following a young woman’s coming of age as she journeys from a small … Continue reading
Casualties
Casualties: A Novel of the Civil War© 2010 David Rothstein465 pages The year is 1863, and Tom Connor just survived the Battle of Gettysburg. His kid brother didn’t, though, and agonized emotionally he is looking forward to a Christmas furlough … Continue reading
Posted in historical fiction, Reviews
Tagged Alabama, American Civil War, American South, historical fiction, Southern Literature
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